What a story. A fascinating, though morbid, story of man that planned to kill another man who had raped him when he was seven. His mother, correctly in my estimation, suspects that there are other victims. It’s also clear that the victim is still suffering. Not for the faint of heart. A quick excerpt:
I was going to watch him writhe like a poisoned cockroach for a few seconds, then kick him onto...

With friends like the Saudis . . .
Mark Steyn is at it again, and right on the mark. I was one of those who doubted a terror connection with the snipers, though they clearly were sowing terror throughout the D.C. metro area. Now it looks like I was wrong.
It’s a little sly, and subtle, but Steyn is mocking Roeper — who is a film critic, along with Ebert — by using the term “suspension...

After the humiliation of seeing the Cubs drop a game in the eighth inning, I fell asleep watching Back To The Future, Part II and howled with laughter when Marty, in the year 2015, is surprised to see that not only have the Cubs won the World Series for the first time in decades, but they defeated a team from Miami, Florida. Maybe a good omen.
For some real world commentary on the Cubs see Spoons’s...

OpinionJournal: Model Injustice What are Ashcroft’s trustbusters doing on New York’s catwalks?
A common defense of John Ashcroft is that he’s just enforcing the law. Not a very nuanced defense when you consider that the Justice Department has limited resources and can’t possibly enforce all of the laws on the books. How the Attorney General allocates these limited resources...

Girls Teach Teen Cyber Gab to FBI Agents (washingtonpost.com)
Even though the creeps the FBI is going after are hideous, it is kind of funny to have teenage girls teaching these oh-so-sophisticated adults a thing or two. Of course, these girls would be specialists on how to IM like a teenager.
Not much to add to this other than it’s nice to see the FBI taking a smart approach to catching pedophiles...